Nancy Pelosi: We Democrats certainly never treated President Bush this way

posted at 4:41 pm on January 28, 2014 by Erika Johnsen

Democrats are looking to President Obama to really help kick the populist agenda they have been re-devising for the 2014 campaign season into high gear with his address this evening, and in previewing the SOTU on MSNBC this morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was really in her element, hitting all of the latest “obstructionist,” “income inequality opportunity gap,” “executive action” talking points like so many carefully concocted whack-a-moles. That it always and necessarily takes two parties to tango is a piece of logic that never seems to enter into that kind of woe-is-us, nobody-else-has-ever-had-to-deal-with-a-divided-government brand of thinking:

The point is that, since that time, under President Obama’s administration, we have eight million jobs created… We have an opportunity gap that the president will be addressing, but let’s remember where we were and how far we have come from the Bush economic policies to where we are now. … The point is, what is happening here now, and let’s, since you’re trying to analyze it, is we have a large segment of the Republican party that is anti-government. We don’t want any more government than we need, but they’re anti-government, anti-science, and anti-Obama. They have a trifecta that is going. I say to the Republicans, take back your party. …To obstruct every initiative that the president has put forth on jobs and say, ‘Why don’t we have more jobs?’ Well, we do have more jobs, but no thanks to the Congress of the United States. … We did not treat President Bush this way. … This obstruction to President Obama is something quite stunning, and something quite different.

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Desperation. Obama and the democrats policies have been a national disaster and it is evident for all to see. To keep pretending otherwise makes the left sound more delusional than ever. It will be interesting to hear how his speech full of spin and untruths will be covered.

Now elgeneralisimo can’t go h8’n on Pelosi, she’s a inspiration for rich, dizzy women everywhere. Her record proves that it really doesn’t require an ounce of intelligence or any inkling of recorded history to succeed in politics…

CA used to be such a great state. Now that liberals have convinced more than half the country that the US is evil and that it stole everything from Indians, blacks, and Mexicans, maybe we should just give CA back to Mexico.

Nancy Pelosi: We Democrats certainly never treated President Bush this way

No you treated him worse than the GOP has treated your boy Obama. A filthy (as in corrupt) stupid partisan who just shucks and jives without ever delivering anything to the American people. You Democrats and your donors have made out quite nicely.

Why do the Democrats insist on making everyone equally poor except those who are rich? What’s the deal? Raising the minimum wage does nothing for the poor long term. It just buys votes until inflation catches up with the new wage. In the short term it makes those who make more than minimum wage poor until after inflation catches up.

I can never understand the anger that people have for this president. Even if you consider that at worst he has done nothing, it doesn’t quite explain the anger. The last president got us into a senseless war that killed many Americans and created a huge deficit and everybody is quiet.

Wow, the comments are filled with angry back seat drivers! No matter what Obama tries to do, he will be blocked by even angrier Republicans, and though Congress’s popularity is at an all time low, some readers are reckless enough to blame Obama for the gridlock. It takes more than 6 years to undo the damage done by the neocons in 8 years. Look at what the sub prime debacle did to the economies of so many countries especially, the US. Under whose watch did that occur?

Typical how it was Ronald Reagan’s henchmen at the FCC who decimated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, a situation that has now given rise to the preposterous broadcasting of three Republican “responses” to Obama’s speech tonight. This foolishness should not be allowed; the opposition should be limited to one broadcast response to the State of the Union speech, regardless of the party of the president making that speech.

What an astounding comment from Bernadette Dohr’s older sister.
It is beyond comprehension how some little political hack from the Baltimore back-bay worms their way up the graft and corruption ladder and becomes one of the richest persons in government.
I mean really, how is this done without the slightest inquisitiveness from the media?

She’s right, Bush wasn’t treated as badly, because he was conciliatory to her side, agreeing with Democrats, for the most part. Obama gets the treatment he deserves, only not from Republicans, but from an electorate that has had enough of him and Bush.

For six years George Stephanopolous reported the death tally on ABC news on a nightly basis, even going so far as to recite the names of our brave troops who were killed. He poked in finger in George Bush’s eye every single night, in essence saying “look at these men you are killing”.

Now the death toll in Afghanistan under Obama’s watch has exceeded the number killed during Bush’s two terms, and what do we hear from Snuffy every night?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Nothing, nada, not a word. All of a sudden pur brave troops are honorably just doing their job, putting their life on the line for our country as any good soldier would.

Bush: Murderer
Obama: Messiah

The difference is striking, obvious and disgusting. And Snuffy is nothing short of a cover man for the Democrats. So shut up Nancy,
you conniving political whore!

Let’s see. Bush was accused of lying us into war. Allowing 9/11 to happen. He was responsible for Katrina(some even went so far as blaming the levees on him). He didn’t care about black people. He was a loser. He was responsible for hurricanes. He was compared to Hitler. Called a traitor. Oh, and he’s to this day blamed for the economy despite having just entered the SIXTH YEAR of the Obama Presidency. And this is all from elected Democrats. Not the kook fringe on the blogs.

I only wish the elected Republicans were half as tough on Obama as the Dems were on Bush.

As President Bush prepares for his second term, Democrats in Washington and around the country are organizing for a year of confrontation and resistance, saying they are determined to block Bush’s major initiatives and thereby deny him the mandate he has claimed from his reelection victory last November.

Well, let’s see, you voted in lock step against debt limit increases, you filibustered all his judicial nominations, criticized the war every step of the way and undermining our mission; you had congresspersons drawing up papers of impeachment among accusations of war crimes, you lambasted his launch of Medicare D and torpedoed his Social Security initiative altogether. But yeah, you guys totally played ball with the President.

And that’s just within Congress; it’s to say nothing about the external reactions: the radio network accusing him of being on cocaine during debates, and locking black people in the Superdome to die; not one, but two animated series lampooning him while in office, the assassination porn, the burning effigies, the egging of his motorcade, the peak of Michael Moore’s popularity… great time to be a President, fo sho.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat’s harshest assessments to date of the president.

“God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat’s harshest assessments to date of the president.

“God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview.

To obstruct every initiative that the president has put forth on jobs and say, ‘Why don’t we have more jobs?’ Well, we do have more jobs, but no thanks to the Congress of the United States.

We DON’T have more jobs, San Fran Nan, thanks to President Obama. If he just got out of the way and let private industry build the Keystone Pipeline, drill and frack for oil and gas, and build new refineries and gas-fired power plants, we’d have PLENTY of jobs.

Instead we’re stuck with, “If you like your health insurance, you can’t keep it, and if you like your doctor, you can’t keep him.” Thanks to YOU, San Fran Nan, who didn’t tell us what was in it until it was too late.